Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing seems to happen in these stories, except in the ordinary way of plain people. Relatives from the city come to a small town for a visit with a cousin. Two brothers, seeking the old homestead where they were born, find that it has been uprooted to make way for a wildlife preserve. In a nursing home, two elderly widows who are lifelong friends become estranged, then reconciled. Still, only the surface of these characters may be viewed as plain. In her seemingly effortless prose style, Munro has etched portraits of people living underground dramas of high intensity...
This is Len Berman here with Joe Theisman's third cousin twice removed. Selma Jones, Selma is a housewife with three children who works on the PTA and bowls every other Thursday. Just another example of the Theisman family's athletic process...
Johnson's cousin by marriage, Marvin Brown, 23, was a few feet away. "Snake made no resistance at all, none," Brown insisted. He agreed with the police, however, that Johnson was carrying a pistol...
...made sure he went to the right schools--St Mark's prep. then Harvard. Until his freshman year at college. Lowell had shown only ordinary signs of rebellion against a stifling Boston social order. During that year he became romantically involved with Anne Dick, a 24-year-old cousin of one of his friends, beginning what would be a lifetime of stormy, shifting romantic involvements, sometimes fueling his poetry, other times sapping his creative energy. When Lowell announced his intention to marry Dick, his alarmed parents arranged to have him spend the summer in Tennessee with a friend...
...Texas hill country in the 19th century. Not for nothing: Caro is explaining why Johnson's farming forebears were doomed to failure despite their heroic labors, a trauma that helped shape the young Lyndon. He began running away from home while still a toddler. As a cousin puts it, "He wanted attention. He wanted to be somebody." After watching his father Sam, an incorruptible six-term state legislator, go broke trying to raise crops in the merciless hill-country dirt, Lyndon opened a propaganda campaign against him. Whenever the boy received a mild thrashing, he would holler loud enough...